Joy Kardish: Revisiting the past
For Joy Kardish, the first person to come to mind when thinking about the word inspiration, is her grandmother Rose, who came to Canada during the 1920s with her husband and three young children. Rose...
View ArticleDale Smith: Candidate: educate thyself
This summer will be busy with nomination races in ridings across the country, as all of the major parties plan to have their candidates in all of the new riding boundaries in place by the fall, with...
View ArticleDale Smith: Mandatory voting won’t solve anything
News that the Liberals are quietly floating the idea of mandatory voting has a few national columnists excited for a number of different reasons. Most people are alarmed at our rather abysmal voter...
View ArticleDale Smith: The unintended consequences of making Parliament more...
With the Ottawa Citizen’s recent look at MPs’ attendance records and finding NDP-turned-independent MP Sana Hassainia’s voting attendance to be poorest, something she blames largely on the demands of...
View ArticleDale Smith: Stephen Harper broke the Senate, and wants the premiers to put it...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s official declaration of a moratorium on Senate appointments is not only unconstitutional, but also the petulant culmination of a series of unconstitutional actions that...
View ArticleThe Gargoyle: Senators kick back, Green leader sprints
Here’s what The Gargoyle heard on the Hill this week: A retiring guy Longtime Liberal Sen. David Smith retires on Monday at 75, the Senate’s mandatory retirement age. Not one to shy away from the...
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